Ernest Hemingway Quotes – Military Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Ernest Hemingway QuotationsErnest Miller Hemingway American novelist and short-story writer. He was also a veteran from WW1 and WW2. Lived: 1899–1961(click here to learn more about Ernest Miller Hemingway)

Military Related Ernest Hemingway Quotes

“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.”– Ernest Hemingway

“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.”– Ernest Hemingway

“Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.”– Ernest Hemingway

“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”– Ernest Hemingway

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”– Ernest Hemingway Quotes

“In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.”– Ernest Hemingway

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